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A trade war masquerading as national security concerns.
by AndyMcConachie 6y ago
A trade war masquerading as national security concerns.
- msla 6y agoNo, the security concerns are real, given the TikTok example and so on.
- msla 6y agoAh, this is proof I struck a nerve!
- jaekash 6y agoReally this is a war of value systems masquerading as a trade war masquerading as national security concerns. I would much rather the west comes out and say this has nothing to do with national security concerns or trade or economics, but that there is no way the west can tolerate how the Chinese Communist Party conducts itself, regardless of how many people get rich from their immoral actions.
- pinkfoot 6y agoAt the risk of attracting the ire of the whataboutism nerds, value-systems are only 'values' and a 'system' when they are well-defined and consistently applied. So most of the planet will only buy thise elaborate line when Saudi Arabia and Pakistan get told to keep their riches.
- jaekash 6y ago> value-systems are only 'values' and a 'system' when they are well-defined and consistently applied. I get what you are trying to say but definitely a value system requires neither of those things. > So most of the planet will only buy thise elaborate line when Saudi Arabia and Pakistan get told to keep their riches. There is hypocrisy but the threat posed by China to the liberal world order is much more serious than the thread posed by Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, and in both those cases there is a bit of a deal with the devil. If the Saudi and Pakistani regimes fall we will probably see much worse things popping up.
- franklampard 6y agoSaudi trained terrorists, planned 9/11, and more recently dismembered a dissenting reporter in Turkey. Their values are far more regressive than China’s. (Women’s rights, religious freedom) How is Saudi Arabia less of a threat?